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COLONEL HOUSE.

America's Mystery Maa.

HEIRESS'S GIFT,"

A Castle and Nine Hundred Acres

Mrn, Marrysk, winter and heirean" of the late Sin James Caird, Bart. Mr. W. Beach Thomss, in of Dandes, has given Belmont spacial cable from New York Castle and extats to Dandre, The city, dated the 7th March, refer estate extends to 900 acres and ring to Col. Ronse, the repress 17 miles north of the city, of mentative of America at the Parin Intar Allied Conference says:-

On the eve of the recent later Allied Conference in Paris many of the representatives of the Allies found themselves in a great room. each group separsted from the othere as succinctly se particles of shaken quicksilver. There the desire to conleece

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26, 1918.

PEACE BY VICTORY.

Mr. Taft on a Lengus ta

Enforce Peace,

Philadelphis, May 16-" War Belmont Castle, the Perthshire the death, demanded ex estate of the ints Sir James Caird, President Taft in his "keynote** the famous Dandes jate million speech at the opening session to aire and philanthropist, was onde

day of the Win-the War ConvED- the home of Sir Henry Campbelltion of the League to Enforos Bannerman. Sir James Ceird sad continue for two days. After a Peace. The Convention will B." were warm friends. Sir Henry built the house after tirring plea for a fightingfarmy parehasing the estate from Lord of 5,000,000 men, Mr. Taft said: "We should set our faces stern Whart off, the old building but not at the moment the having been burned down. Bel and unbending toward one end— motive power, the the mont Castle is said so mark the

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had not arrived and the group eyed one another with a misture of curiosity and shyness. At thie japoture the door opened and there entered a small neither

mán, conspicnops in personality, to those who jedge of exterosis, nor big is reputation, nor bigh in

offies. Indeed he held no office at all and he bed always shunned publicity. Bat this incon- spionous perron had not resched the middle of the room before all the awkwardness, nervousness,

and strain were, lifted, from the bearing and the faces of the com-

The joined together pany, around the new arrival with an ingles mind as if an external hand had shaken all the quick. wilver drop into ous fold of cloth. | This man was Colonel Hauro.

And who is Colonel House. And that is his secret? I went to visit him to-day in soms hope to get at least a hint of the secret of

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scene of the final straggle between have war that we may have Macbeth and Macduf, when peace. To sound the trumpet, Macbeth was slain.

stern implacable war to the end, this Convention was called..

Sir James Caird made several princely gifts to his native city of Dantes, including:

Maternity Hospital, costing., Cancer Hospital Sanatorium

Mr. Taft presided. Men of nation-wide prominence to the | number of 4,000 are in attendance. £6,000 They include educatore, business

24,000 10,000

A Home of Best Main Castle, with 271 area as pleasure grounds for the public. For the new City Hall. £100,000 included:

Hie other public benefsotiona

men, and statesman.”

"This Convention speaks an irrevcoable public opinion that| the war must go on until our for is dafusted,” Mr. Taft unid. ** We re fighting the German people, led by the Hohenzollern Dynasty, its military hierschy, and Prus- sian reactionaries. They maintain 10,000

the undiluted and cruel doctrine 10,000

that might its right. They have 5 000

strengthening their might for fifty years in order to establish their right to the domination of of the world.

Free Trade Union British Association Royal Society.....

Caird Lasect House at the Z10. His private masificance covered wide field while bie works gav employment to 3,000 people.

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Washington, May 14-Ger- send many no longer can submarines to the trade routes between the United States and Europe and expect them to patrol these lanes and escape detection "No one in the wildest fight of whether above or below water. kis imagiontion now oan think of on the surfser. Very little, is en andefeated Germany yielding ay submarine which now moves his power in the world, and after the surface, too, except his un- either proper indemaity about within a range of thirty a very pleasant, and in some ways canov knowledge of persons and Belgium or justice to Alasos miles of any Allied patrol vessel ialimste, talk in the library study things Even while he spake Lorraine. Nor will the ungon can not only be detected, but where his brain ticks-it is never glowingly of the momentum of quired German ruling class Con heard to strike it was not American effort his hand made sent to life the German paw from definitely located if it remains dificult to understand why his little movement as if he were prostrate Bassin, or give over to long enough in any given vioin entry into a room even of groovy turning is deathandle, and be decent rule the blood-stained ity: This fact alone has account- politicians should alter the at- added that the momentum will be Christian provinces of Tarkay.ed, in part, for the great destruc mosphere.

great and visible as soon as "If the wrongs of the oppressed are tion of German sabmarines in The secret of his personality is little turn is giren” to the not righted the war will have been the past few months and may, not easy to convey in words, bat organising centre in Washington, fought in vain." it would be worth while if I could

eventually, when suti submarine Mr. T. F. Hoogh; A.S.P. (B), is The gesture and sentiment The league will take an sötive patrol boats broome numerous granted three months' leave from even suggest a hint of it. For smonnoed not the idealist but the part in "win the war activities." enough, prove to be the prise date. Colonel House is possibly the best man who gives those "little turns" This is emphasised in the annual antidote lo submarine effective and wisest of living diplomats, which get the right thing done at report of the executive committee.ness. He speaks with the delightfully the right moment with the least) "The task of the league has soft voice of the born Southerner, trouble,

aftobmient been one of popular education," which, when placed alongside B. and his manner is, perhaps, too I suppose no one has had so the report says. "It has mar anprestations. The delight of wide and intimate an insight shelled the resourom of a power another vessel, has been known ship, will detect the approach of talking to him springs from his into the diplomacy of the war. fal organisation directed by lead to all navies for a long time, bat peculiar gift of almost subconsci-No one hears of him orcasing the ers of national reputation in every the Allies now have a mechanical ous sympathy. His response to any- Atlantic or the Channel, but State of the Union to accomplish device thing said, whether light or he has been a shuttle plying the following ends.

the sensitiveness and waighly comes so smoothly and between east and west and "1-Emphasise the high parthing heretofore employed for socuracy of which excels say. quickly and appropriately that weaving the tissue of alliance.porn of the war. you feel as if all along he had He has been twice in Germany

this purpose. "2.-Take an sotive part in the with the highly effective depth When combined been dealing directly with your since 1914 and seems to have win-the-war activities. thoughts rather than your words; been courted by the GermanO AN 43.-Oppoas an inconclusive pressure at any depth fired, bomb, which explodes upon water and during any pauess in our s man who might at any time and German-made peace that submarines have been greatly talk we seemed to be still con- take peace out of his pocket and would be only another breathing harassed sad many destroved versing, His engine, so to speak, offer it as quietly as a man would space before another and greater in the past few months. Un- starts without noise or jerk or offer a cigar to a friend. But contest. even emphasis. He possesses never was there a man whom

less. a eubmarione can "4-Plan the foundations for its destination undetected and lis resch supremely what a novelist has German mentality was lea walla permanent league of nations to nelled "Listener's lure." He is qualified to read. It could under- make pesce secure in the future. on the bottom submerged until careful to betray few feelings stand a lath painted to look like Probability and grave danger now difficult for them to do any the time for action arrives, it is and bosate few definite opinions, iron; it cannot understand a lion of another Garman pasca drive business at all neat the congested for he is listener frat and talker camouflaged to the appearance were emphasised by President Alines of transportation to Europe,

Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard all of which are well patralled.

second.

of a mouse.

But his native idealism, which We like to think in England of University :---

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is a sort of delicate fervour," is the skill of our hereditary dipio- | "It is not at all'improbable that The confidence recently # VICTORIA THE TRE. curiously palpable whenever con- mate. Colonel House has shown within a few weeks Germany masy official quarters that destruction pramed in French and British. genial people or things are that diplomata are born, not made, propose to make pesce on terms. toached upon, especially people. rad he himself was born, like the that appear on their face reason of submarines is on the "increzas I happen to know well some of Greek goddam, in fall panoply. able and moderate. She may while the destructiveness of sub. bie close friends in England, and He had no training, but his offer to retire from Belgium and marines is on the decrease is more than once his whole person quiet mast in organisation took France and even to contribute based, in part, on the counter-requests a special Ma- brightened when this or that name him one day from Texas, his towards the damage suffered, to affensive now being waged with was mentioned for example, native place, to the National code Alesce-Lorraine of leave succes. Farther development of when we talked of Sir Horace Convention, whera he met their future to be decided by Bati-submarine devices are also Plunkett and his still invincible Dr. Woodrow Wilson, almost by plebbiscite, to give the Trentino well under way which faith in the Irish Convention, and scoident, and his capacity for hero and Triscio to Italy, to promise materially seeist in curbing their in the high purpose of the United worship at once found vent. More some kind of satonomy to the already diminishing effective Staten. His soft and unemphatic than any other man he helped to various races in Central and voise slowed when we reached the develop the professor into the Eastern Europe, and to agree Babject of America and the war, President. I may not say what that the barbarities she has Bismarck and Emperor William, and be told me with one of the fine words of praise he has used practiced shall not again be per-bad done most to mould modern. restrained but vivid gestures that or how high in the category of mitted in war. mark him how the accumulated great chiefs he places President force of the American Continent Wilson, hat I can say that praise was just reaching ita true from Colonel House is commenda momentum, and how through the tion indeed.

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German political thought and "Sach an rffer might well bring on the present war, by beguile the Allies into a delusive Dr. Richard Heath Dabney, peace,

TO BE LET. The peace would be of the University of Vir delusive, for, unless the principle ginis, who studied under Treit. TO BE LET-Comfortably doora of New York the word of Almost as soon as the Pre of militarism is destroyed, the schka in Berlin. Dr. Dabney's FURNISHED airy FLAT, the South and the Middle West ident's election was complete. promises would be kept no better pic was 'Germany's Dream of modern conveniences, near Ferry fand the Far West was on the way Colonel House became a world than those broken in the past Dominion."

Kowloon. Bor 1399. co to its falfilment in Europe, and force. He has sccepted no office Autonomy of other races would

Hongkong Telegraph." how the war, an evil thing in and sought no fame, but his in mean their organisation for the holy the American and the itself, was nevertheless cementing Ruence is like that of the man strengthening of Germany; until Prussian ideals respectively are many things that were loose in the who hith a well-timed ball and she had control of the resources Patrick Henry and Frederick the PEAK TRAMWAYS CO., LTD, "American nation."

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